Hook or Slice?

[PuttPutt]

If you are struggling with a slice or a hook when you are teeing off try the following. Whenever you are teeing off and you have a tendency to hook, lower your tee. If you have a tendency to slice, try heightening your tee.

[alf174]

Wouldn't it be nice if it was that easy? Unfortunately it isn't.

[CG031]

Lol is this a joke...

[shortstop20]

This just in!!!! The height of your tee makes you hook or slice. The angle of your clubface and swing path makes no difference!!!!!! Lol

[trickymicky69]

I am gonna throw a spanner in the works......

It might not cure it, but it may help?

[brgolf]

I am going to throw you in the works. It might dislodge the spanner and provide great amusement to me.

[trickymicky69]

I think the point is that the wrong tee height can make sidespin worse?

If you're hitting crooked drives, an adjustment to tee height can straighten your shots.

Slicers swing down too steeply at the ball, creating too much backspin and sidespin. And if their slices are ballooning, they instinctively tee the ball lower, thinking it will stop the pop-up. This only causes them to swing steeper to get down to the ball.

If you fight a slice, you have to shallow out your swing path. You need to feel as if you're hitting up on the ball, and teeing it higher will promote that. At address, at least half the ball should be above the top of the clubhead. This encourages you to swing more from the inside and to stay back and sweep the ball off the tee.

Hookers, on the other hand, tend to swing too far from the inside and get the club trapped behind them. From there, they have to use their hands to release the club, which, if overdone, produces a hook. Teeing it lower will keep the club more in front of your body on the downswing, helping you swing to the ball on a straighter path.

QUICK CURE

Slicers should tee the ball higher, and hookers should tee it lower to improve their swing paths and straighten their shots.

by David Leadbetter Golf Digest Teaching Professional

Based at ChampionsGate near Orlando, David Leadbetter operates 28 golf academies worldwide. For more tips, click golfdigest.com/instruction.
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[The Recreational Golfer]

I thought this was going to be like a Ginger or Mary Ann thing (Ginger, BTW, hands down). Yes, I tend to hook, and if I tee my ball too high, I have one more reason to hit it left. But as someone who couldn't hit it right on a bet, when I tee it too low, all I get is a shot that goes left and doesn't get in the air.

Would that it were that simple.